by Sarah Deeming | June 22, 2021 | Blog, Reviews
The gods are gone, killed centuries before in a war amongst themselves that saw the gods killed and the great dragon Rik-Lifa contained in a pit with nothing but corpses to feed in. At least, that is the legend, and anyone with god blood in them is considered Tainted....
by Sarah Deeming | May 18, 2021 | Blog, Reviews
Anna is a story about domestic abuse and rape, and so it deserves the trigger warnings at the start of the book. Be warned, this is not a book for the faint-hearted. From the very beginning, Anna, not her real name, but the one she assumes, is subjected to horrific...
by Sarah Deeming | May 4, 2021 | Blog, Reviews
It is the Age of Enlightenment, yet, people are still separated by those who have and those who don’t. The wealthy magicians sit at the top and keep the right to use magic for themselves. The magical poor are registered, banned from using their power, and severely...
by Sarah Deeming | April 19, 2021 | Blog, Reviews
Ariadne is the daughter of King Minos of Crete and the sister of the dreaded Minotaur. Every year, Athens sends fourteen young men and women as a sacrifice to the Minotaur, and Ariadne looks away, unable to bear her part in these atrocities. Then Theseus, the prince...
by Sarah Deeming | April 6, 2021 | Blog, Reviews
Mika’s position as a princess in the Kisia Kingdom has never been secure. Her life is dogged by Emperor Kin’s, her stepfather, assassination attempts to remove her and her brother from the line of succession, and she is often overlooked because of her gender....
by Sarah Deeming | October 15, 2020 | Blog, Reviews
Every four years, two children from the village of Gavaldon are stolen and forced to attend the School for Good and the School for Evil. Sophie is determined to go to the School for Good and become a princess; she is beautiful, after all, so where else would she go?...
